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Arcore
Time was over for Silvio Berlusconi. Almost 20
years, and not sure is really the end.
He resigned in shame, but I think time will assess
him in a more elaborate way. For sure, with his
resignation, all sudden we all get those 20 years
added to our life.
There was a life withouth Berlusconi, the
Berlusconi years and now we are into next. The
gent, he was quite a disaster, but I am pretty sure
that next years will be worse.
More sweet quote from our dearest Silvio at: http:
//www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-15642201
I am not a saint, you've all
understood that.
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Munich, Germany
A Ceramic Tiled Skin
Between the various presentations, performances
and things happening at Schloss for the "Chronicles
of Work 1", I was very curious to see the
presentation by Louisa Hutton. I like quite much
the work she does with her husband Matthias
(Sauerbruch) and her presentation on the
Brandhorst Museum in Munich was actually fairly
fascinating. She also talked at lenght about the
time she spent with Peter and Alison Smithson,
when she was young. This, I didn't know and once
she mentioned it, I understood the roots of a lot of
things I like of Sauerbruch and Hutton works. More
about the Brandhorst skin at: http://www.
facebook.com/media/set/...
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Akademie Schloss Solitude
Wolves and Villagers
One evening at Schloss, it was late and we were
quite a large group of people drinking and chit-
chatting. When it was time to go sleep, Sasha and
Karoline's proposed to play this game called
"Wolves and Villagers". I never played it before,
and I thought it was an odd idea to start to play a
game (whatever the game is) at 1 AM. But the
other people grew excited and in few minutes I
found myself funneled in one of the most
fascinating games I've ever played. We played till
dawn, and it was at once exciting, gruesome,
mean and really enjoyable. It would be too long to
explain the rules here. Much better to give you the
link to Wikipedia entry (I finally understood this
game is quite an important thing, invented by a
Russian psychologist under the name of "Mafia" in
the 1980's). Anyway, here the link to Dimitry
Davidoff game: http://en.wikipedia.
org/wiki/Mafia_%28party_game%29
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Here a second set of rules, more detailed and
precise. Try to convince some friends and get to
play: http://www.eblong.com/zarf/werewolf.
html
Akademie Schloss Solitude
Product of Circumstances
Another very special thing I've seen during this
symposium at Schloss, it was this performance by
Xavier Le Roy. He describes the whole act writing:
""I began to take two dance classes a week at the
same time that I started to work on my thesis for
my Ph.D. in molecular and cellular biology. Its
been now eight years that I have submitted my
thesis and stopped to work as a biologist. Since I
work as a dancer or choreograph I am very often
presented as an atypical dancer or as a dancer
molecular biologist. It became my currency in the
"Society
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of the Spectacle". I was invited to prepare and
present a lecture for an event on theory and praxis
in performance...". More at: http://www.
facebook.com/media/set/...
Akademie Schloss Solitude
Tacita Dean & Red Flower
One of the nice things of this "Chronicles of Work
1" symposium was to meet again a number of
smart and interesting people I've met earlier in the
year. Tacita Dean presented her movie: "Edwin
Parker". Not simple and immediate to understand
(some of her previous works were easier to grasp),
but surely another deep and sharp cut into her
obsession for time, decaying bodies, ageing, and a
lot of other spooky (henceforth fascinating)
themes. Apart from the work itself, she was very
kind, talkative and open to explanation, dialogue
(as usual). Very
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rare. An excellent artist, an open person, a
fascinating researcher of people's mind (you
couldn't ask for more). More about "Edwin Parker"
at: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/...
I like this display...
Of course I like, because I was part of the little
team setting the whole thing up. It was our:
"There is no solution because there is no problem"
display at Schloss Solitude event. The event was:
"Chronicles of Work 1. Work without qualities".
More on our cute thingy at: http://www.facebook.
com/media/set/...
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Tweet_Ville
Out of this thing in Schloss Solitude, our little
display had various parts. There were the
papercrafts, the project for the iphone scale
rollcoaster (to be used as a dolly to make a short
movie out of our little papercraft town), etc.
Between the various things we also launched
Tweet_Ville, an essay / manifesto on what we are
doing (and why we are doing) using Twitter as the
main medium. You can follow @twt_ville at: https:
//twitter.com/#!/twt_ville
Here the link to some other screenshots of
@twt_ville account: http://www.facebook.
com/media/set/...